St. Nicetas Monastery

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St. Nicetas Monastery is situated in the northern part of Pereslavl
near the road to Yaroslavl. We know that the monastery was established
before Pereslavl was founded in XII century. Chernigov Shrine was built
in XII century on the road to the monastery.

There is Cathedral of St. Nicetas in the centre of the architectural ensemble.
It was built by the order of the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the 16th
century. The cathedral has been reconstructed in the XVIII, XIX, XX centuries.
There were ancient icons made by very talanted masters. At the end of the 19th
century the walls of the cathedral were painted by the group of the
Russian artists headed by Safonov. Now we have only a small part of it.

The Bell-Tower (1668) is situated in the south of the cathedral.

The time of the building of the east Cells near the Bell-Tower is the 17th-
18th centuries.

In the south-west corner of the St. Nicetas Cathedral you can see a small
shrine. It was built on the place where the cell of the founder of the
monastery was situated. The pictures on the walls of the shrine are tell
us about the life of St. Nicetas.